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Calais Semantic Web Service Adds Professional Version
Semantic web service Calais is adding a paid professional version today that includes an SLA that will make the service more feasible for corporations. Calais, a web service that extracts semantics from content automatically, acts as a catalyst for bringing about the Semantic Web.
Reuse Content and Make Money Twice
The easiest way to make money from content is to make money again from content you’ve already figured out how to make money from, says 37signals. Why kill yourself producing new content when you can milk what you’ve already written for all its worth?
TV’s Future is On Demand
In just a few short months Hulu went from being a site that everyone ridiculed, to one that people are hailing as the future of television. It might just be that, but there are some obstacles that it and sites like it will need to overcome first.
A Minimal HTML Document
I am often surprised by just how many professionally-designed sites are delivered in the form of incomplete HTML documents. To be fair, however, the amount of code required for even an empty HTML document has grown significantly over the years.
One upon a time, an HTML document only had to contain…
Why You Should Attend Two Conferences a Year
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #414.
On the eve of flying to Sydney for the Web Directions South conference, I thought I’d focus on the topic of conferences—I believe you should attend at least two every year.
So why attend a conference? Let’s start with education. You’ll learn more from attending one conference than all the books and blog posts you can read in one month. This may sound like a tall order, but seriously, if you are actively listening to the presenter, it’s hard not to learn more than by simply being there.
Secondly, the fact that you are there in person (as opposed to, say, listening to a podcast) means that you participate in the full experience; non-verbal cues (such as body language or facial expressions), as well as presentation slides and Q&A sessions that are normally cut from the podcast, are all factors that can make a session more rewarding, and provide valuable insights too.
Then there’s the networking. Some may derisively call it schmoozing, however, this is a very important benefit of conferences that should not be underestimated. The contacts that you can make by grabbing a meal or a coffee during …
Facebook About to Make Lexicon Way More Useful
Facebook recently put up a preview version of their upcoming Lexicon tool. It adds a whole slew of new functionality and exposes a lot more aggregate demographic data culled from their 100 million users. The tool could be very useful for web site marketers when it is released.
5 Ways to Keep Tabs on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most powerful sites on the web due to the prominent place that so many of its articles rank on Google. But just who is authoring those articles? We present five web sites that help you to keep tabs on Wikipedia and its editors.
Two Apps that Lower the iPhone Development Barrier
The iPhone platform is this year’s “it” developer platform — people are making real money selling apps and you’re just not hip and cool if you don’t have one. But developing for the iPhone requires learning Objective-C and Cocoa, right? Maybe not anymore.
Arianna Huffington: The Secret to Success is Passion
In just 3 years Arianna Huffington has built the Huffington Post into the world’s number one blog network, with over 2,000 bloggers, a staff of 60, and 3.6 million monthly unique visitors. What’s the secret of her success? According to her: unending passion.
What Makes the Cloud the Cloud
“Cloud computing” is one of those buzzwords that is used a lot but has a very nebulous definition. At the Web 2.0 Expo this week, venture capitalist Albert Wenger attempted to define what makes the cloud the cloud by laying out four principles of cloud computing.
